On this episode, Jabril Yousef Faraj, author of the Guardians of the Cosmic Clocks, a young adult fantasy series, talks about their inspiration from their favorite books, why it’s so important to have stories that children can see themselves in, and what reading can do for humanity.
Guardians of the Cosmic Clocks
Jabril’s Author Site
Jabril on YouTube
Books mentioned in this episode:
What Betsy’s reading:
John of John by Douglas Stuart
Life Ceremony by Sayaka Murata
Books Highlighted by Jabril:
The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis
1984 by George Orwell
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov
Rosehead by Ksenia Anske
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.
Other books mentioned in this episode:
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Odyssey by Homer
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Teddy Roosevelt by Edd Winfield Parks & Gray Morrow
Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Giver by Lois Lowry
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Xenocide by Orson Scott Card
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Animal Farm by George Orwell
